On Discord in the Church and in Communities

Sermon 29 on The Song of Songs

"My
mother's sons turned their anger to me." Annas and Caiaphas, and
Judas Iscariot, were sons of the Synagogue; and from the Church's
very origin these fought with great bitterness against her, daughter
of the Synagogue though she was, and hanged Jesus, her Founder, on a
tree. In that moment God fulfilled through their agency what he had
formerly foretold through the Prophet: "I will strike the
shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered." ...